.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 332 208
Rank change year-on-year +101 -124 -55
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 789 350 946
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.81% 0.80% 1.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.36% 4.38% 6.37%
Number of salaries quoted 730 310 753
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £71,627 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £106,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,724 7,997 14,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.04% 18.27% 20.82%
Number of salaries quoted 7,963 5,346 10,433
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,442 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +6.83% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,438 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -3.70%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 1 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +105 204 £55,000 +7.32% 64
North of England +43 181 £55,000 -8.33% 58
East of England +77 118 £60,000 +20.00% 29
Midlands +27 103 £55,000 -8.33% 31
London -100 99 £80,000 - 119
South West -21 79 £52,500 - 16
North East +5 78 £65,000 +33.33% 13
North West -8 65 £50,000 -16.67% 34
West Midlands +15 60 £55,000 -8.33% 17
East Midlands +12 43 £52,500 -6.67% 14
Yorkshire -18 38 £47,500 -20.83% 11
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 26 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.39%) IIS
3 7 (0.89%) CMS
3 7 (0.89%) Confluence
4 4 (0.51%) Sitecore CMS
4 4 (0.51%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.38%) DNN
5 3 (0.38%) EPiServer
5 3 (0.38%) Immediacy CMS
5 3 (0.38%) Kentico
5 3 (0.38%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.13%) Magento
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 651 (82.51%) Azure
2 223 (28.26%) Azure DevOps
3 155 (19.65%) GitHub
4 138 (17.49%) GitHub Copilot
5 136 (17.24%) Azure AI
6 135 (17.11%) AWS
7 77 (9.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 46 (5.83%) Power Platform
9 45 (5.70%) Azure Logic Apps
10 36 (4.56%) Power Automate
11 32 (4.06%) PowerApps
12 31 (3.93%) Azure Service Bus
13 27 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
14 22 (2.79%) Azure Key Vault
14 22 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
14 22 (2.79%) SaaS
15 20 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
15 20 (2.53%) Serverless
16 19 (2.41%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 19 (2.41%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.83%) Internet
2 7 (0.89%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.38%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.25%) Firewall
5 1 (0.13%) HTTP
5 1 (0.13%) Modbus
5 1 (0.13%) Network Security
5 1 (0.13%) SSL
5 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 449 (56.91%) Azure SQL Database
2 373 (47.28%) MongoDB
3 154 (19.52%) Elasticsearch
4 143 (18.12%) SQL Server
5 37 (4.69%) Power BI
6 23 (2.92%) MySQL
6 23 (2.92%) Relational Database
7 18 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (1.39%) NonStop SQL
8 11 (1.39%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.39%) Redis
9 10 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.89%) Geospatial Data
11 7 (0.89%) GIS
12 4 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.38%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.38%) ZAP BI
14 2 (0.25%) MariaDB
15 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 71 (9.00%) Git
2 15 (1.90%) JIRA
3 13 (1.65%) NUnit
4 10 (1.27%) GitLab
5 7 (0.89%) MSI
5 7 (0.89%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.76%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.63%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.63%) Postman
7 5 (0.63%) Snyk
8 3 (0.38%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.38%) JUnit
8 3 (0.38%) Selenium
8 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.38%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.13%) MSTest
9 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 118 (14.96%) Finance
2 82 (10.39%) Social Skills
3 57 (7.22%) Advertising
4 44 (5.58%) Games
5 41 (5.20%) Marketing
6 33 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (4.18%) Retail
7 32 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
8 24 (3.04%) Public Sector
9 22 (2.79%) Law
10 14 (1.77%) Aerospace
10 14 (1.77%) Banking
11 11 (1.39%) Music Industry
12 10 (1.27%) Legal
13 8 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.89%) Automotive
15 5 (0.63%) Local Government
15 5 (0.63%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.51%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 666 (84.41%) Developer
2 531 (67.30%) .NET Developer
3 104 (13.18%) Senior
4 85 (10.77%) Software Developer
5 72 (9.13%) Senior Developer
6 62 (7.86%) C# Developer
7 54 (6.84%) Lead
8 48 (6.08%) C# .NET Developer
9 40 (5.07%) Full-Stack Developer
10 35 (4.44%) Lead Developer
11 34 (4.31%) Software Engineer
12 27 (3.42%) .NET Software Developer
13 26 (3.30%) Senior C# Developer
14 21 (2.66%) Senior .NET Developer
14 21 (2.66%) Senior Software Developer
15 20 (2.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 18 (2.28%) C# Software Developer
16 18 (2.28%) Lead .NET Developer
17 16 (2.03%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
17 16 (2.03%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 789 (100.00%) .NET
2 520 (65.91%) ASP.NET
3 450 (57.03%) ASP.NET Core
4 239 (30.29%) CSS
5 237 (30.04%) HTML
6 222 (28.14%) Entity Framework
7 215 (27.25%) Blazor
8 204 (25.86%) React
9 189 (23.95%) RESTful
10 188 (23.83%) AngularJS
11 171 (21.67%) ASP.NET Web API
12 169 (21.42%) Vue
13 158 (20.03%) Node.js
14 140 (17.74%) .NET Framework
15 134 (16.98%) ML.NET
16 108 (13.69%) LINQ
17 71 (9.00%) REST
18 49 (6.21%) JSON
19 36 (4.56%) WPF
20 27 (3.42%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 87 (11.03%) Greenfield Project
2 63 (7.98%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.53%) Digital TV
4 20 (2.53%) Mobile App
5 19 (2.41%) Cloud Native
6 17 (2.15%) iPhone
7 16 (2.03%) Product Ownership
8 15 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.52%) Social Network
9 12 (1.52%) Sports Betting
10 11 (1.39%) BBC
10 11 (1.39%) Social Media
11 10 (1.27%) Hedge funds
11 10 (1.27%) Low-Code
11 10 (1.27%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.89%) Client/Server
13 7 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
13 7 (0.89%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.92%) Windows
2 17 (2.15%) Android
3 3 (0.38%) Linux
3 3 (0.38%) VMS
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 521 (66.03%) Full-Stack Development
2 415 (52.60%) Agile
3 271 (34.35%) CI/CD
4 268 (33.97%) DevOps
5 214 (27.12%) Microservices
6 170 (21.55%) AI
7 154 (19.52%) Machine Learning
8 146 (18.50%) Multithreading
9 103 (13.05%) Scrum
10 93 (11.79%) Software Engineering
11 88 (11.15%) OO
12 84 (10.65%) TDD
13 68 (8.62%) BDD
14 63 (7.98%) Kanban
15 62 (7.86%) User Experience
16 58 (7.35%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
16 58 (7.35%) Problem-Solving
17 53 (6.72%) Mentoring
18 49 (6.21%) Business Intelligence
18 49 (6.21%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 734 (93.03%) C#
2 520 (65.91%) SQL
3 261 (33.08%) JavaScript
4 209 (26.49%) TypeScript
5 29 (3.68%) PowerShell
6 28 (3.55%) Python
7 14 (1.77%) Java
8 13 (1.65%) T-SQL
9 9 (1.14%) VBA
10 7 (0.89%) Bicep
11 5 (0.63%) Bash
12 4 (0.51%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.51%) Ruby
12 4 (0.51%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.38%) Go
13 3 (0.38%) VBScript
14 2 (0.25%) C
14 2 (0.25%) Dart
14 2 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 65 (8.24%) Degree
2 28 (3.55%) SC Cleared
2 28 (3.55%) Security Cleared
3 25 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (1.14%) Master's Degree
5 6 (0.76%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.38%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.38%) ICAEW
6 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.38%) OCP
6 3 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.25%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.80%) QA
2 25 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.89%) NCSC
3 7 (0.89%) WCAG
4 4 (0.51%) GDPR
5 3 (0.38%) NIST
6 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.13%) Basel III
7 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.13%) ITGC
7 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 193 (24.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 176 (22.31%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.38%) Ansible
2 3 (0.38%) Grafana
2 3 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 525 (66.54%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.72%) Facebook
3 46 (5.83%) Google
4 21 (2.66%) YouTube
5 19 (2.41%) Adobe
6 11 (1.39%) Apple
6 11 (1.39%) Sony
6 11 (1.39%) Yahoo!
7 6 (0.76%) OpenAI
7 6 (0.76%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.51%) Sitecore
8 4 (0.51%) Workday
9 3 (0.38%) Alterian
9 3 (0.38%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.38%) Optimizely
9 3 (0.38%) Splunk
10 2 (0.25%) IFS
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle
10 2 (0.25%) Sage
10 2 (0.25%) Veracode